Browsing MWP Working Papers by Title

Title:On the Signaling and Feedback Effects of Umbrella Branding
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Author(s):THAL, JeanineDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2007/13Abstract:I consider an adverse selection model of product quality to analyze a firm's incentives to sell different products under an umbrella brand. My main result is that umbrella branding can signal positive quality correlation ...

Title:Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation
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Author(s):SIMON, JennyDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2012/13Abstract:I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing ...

Title:The pathology of faith
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Author(s):NUNO-SILVA, SebastiaoDate:2014Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2014/15Abstract:Portuguese republican ideology gained strength during the last decades of the nineteenth century. The medical community played a decisive role in the definition of this ideology. The republican medical community’s main ...

Title:Peer Effects in Free School Meals: Information or stigma?
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Author(s):JAMES, JonathanDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2012/11Abstract:This paper investigates peer effects in the take up of a welfare programme, free school meals, using the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) which collects data on every child attending school in England. To explore ...

Title:The Political Effects of Becoming a Citizen: Solution or selection?
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Author(s):STREET, AlexDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2012/19Abstract:The status of citizenship confers the right to participate as a full member of the political community. One might therefore expect foreign residents who acquire citizenship to become more engaged with politics. However, ...

Title:Political Representation and Income Inequality
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Author(s):HAKHVERDIAN, ArmenDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2010/36Abstract:Whose preferences determine the direction of government policy? Is it the political centre, formally known as the median or mean voter, or is government policy more responsive to socio-economic elites? This paper examines ...